Edith margaret mary mackay



No. 607,604. Patented July l9, I898. E. M. M. MACKAY.

HAIR FASTENER. (Application filed Dec. 19, 1896.)

(No Model.)

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NlTED STATES EDITH MARGARET MARY MAOKAY, OF LONDON, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TOWILLIAM LORD BALLIN HINDE, OF BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.

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SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 607,604, dated July 19,1898.

' Application filed December 19, 1896. Serial No. 616,292. (No model.)Patented in England March 11, 1896,110. 5,530; inI'ranoe June 25,1896.110. 257,567, and in Belgium June 26, 1896,11'0. 122,256.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDITH MARGARET MARY MACKAY, a subject of the Queenof Great Britain, residing at London, England, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Fastenings for the Hair, fully described andrepresented in the following specification and the accompanyingdrawings, forming a part of the same, the said improvements beingembraced in Letters Patent of GreatBritain, Ho. 5,530,dated March11,1896; Letters Patent of France, No. 257,567, dated June 25, 1896, andLetters Patent of Belgium, No. 122,256, dated June 26, 1896.

This invention relates to fasteners for the hair, the purpose of whichis to secure the same in a single compact bunch in order that the samemay be thereafter twisted and made up into any fanciful arrangement andsecured as an ornamental decoration of the head.

The present invention, briefly stated, consists in a fastener composedof a band of flexible material for embracing the hair, one end of saidband being provided with a bent hook adapted to enter the hair and inrear thereof with one member of an interlocking device, and the otherend of the band being provided with the other member of saidinterlocking device, these two members interlocking and thus securingtogether the two ends of the band.

The preferred construction of this fastener is illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 illustrates the same by aperspective view as it is constructed and put upon the market. Fig. 2illustrates the rear View of a female figure having this improvedfastener applied to the hair to hold the same in a compact roll orbunch. Fig. 3 is a sectional View of a bunched roll of hair having thisimproved fastener applied thereto and holding the same in compact form.

The fastener consists of a narrow band a, preferably elastic, having astilf hook I) attachedto its one end, together with a button or stud c,affixed thereto, and at the other end provided with a ring, as cl. Anymeans may be used for securing the hook to the band, as the slot shown,through which the band is passed and fastened. The band might carry thebutton 0 near the hook I); but preferably this button a will be rivetedto said hook. Although a metallic hook is desirable because of itscheapness of structure, still one made of any suitable rigid materialmay be used. The ring 01 operates as a buttonhole and is to be of metalor similar rigid material, and for convenience of manipulation may beprovided with'a tab 6; but this tab is not essential, and the buttonholemay be formed in the web of the band in an ordinary manner, if desired.

In using this improved fastener the hook may be of suitable dimensionsto hook around the bunched mass of hair or hooked therein, as shown inFig. 3, and the band is passed around the bunched hair one or moretimes, according to its size, and then has its ring (1 or buttonholepassed over the button or stud c, whereupon the bunched hair will beembraced and held by the band close to the back of the head of the userand enable the bunched hair it sustains to be thereafter twisted andlaid in fanciful form against the head of the user, where it is securedin the ordinary way by hair-pins.

Having now particularly described the nature of the said invention andthe manner of its use, what I claim, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is

1. A fastener for the hair consisting of a flexible band provided at oneend with an inwardly-bent hook adapted to enter and grasp the hair and,in rear of the inwardly-bent portion of said hook, with one member of aninterlocking fastening device for connecting the ends of the band, andat its other end with the other member of said fastening device,substantially as described.

2. The improved hair-fastener consisting of the flexible band a, hook1), button 0 and ring d, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

EDI"1I MARGARET MARY MAOKAY.

Witnesses:

JOHN WALLACE, H. DENTON J AMESON.

